I flew into newark today and when I was walking out I passed the security screening point and they had erected these glass corridors that let people through two abreast and it was like children of mine so upsetting
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
i flew into newark airport yesterday and didn't think it too bad (well, until the waiting curbside for my ride to pick me up part, but that was arguably worse for my brother)
new york penn station today, otoh, was hellish
― silvana mangano, Saturday, 24 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2011/12/23/the_most_expensive_cities_have_the_highest_wages.html
people in the Bay Area, the DC area, New York, and Boston really are richer than people in Tucson and Akron it's not all given back in higher housing costs.
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Sunday, 25 December 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
so I'll be in NYC from the 30th to the 4th
no plans for NYE just yet, but I should prob able to get lunch on the 2nd and 3rd while my bros are at work, I think?
― river wolf, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
ay is off til the 3rd
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
This year I'm breaking my streak of doing absolutely nothing for the new year and spending the day in NYC. Going to try and hit a few museums; my absolute musts are Daphne Guinness at the Fashion Institute of Technology (my last chance to see it, and the closest I'll get to the McQueen exhibit I missed) and Carsten Höller at the New Museum, but I'm going to try and fit in the Neue Galerie too if at all possible.
No real plans for the actual Eve part of New Year's, so I'm probably just going to head back into Philly and do my usual NYE ritual; pile of blankets, bottle of wine, stack of DVDs, terrible sleep-related decisions
― Telephone Thing, Friday, 30 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/nyregion/nyc-traffic-deaths-set-100-year-low-mayor-says.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
that ray kelly is given any credit is a joke, police dept is pretty useless.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh wow you're making those people going 70 on a cross-street at rush hour wear their seatbelts
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
ray kelly gets credit for everything
― max max max max, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
was just noticing yesterday how cavalier new yorks pedestrians are, take some care w/yr lives fools!
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
it's just insane how casually people will stand *inches* away from cars going 60+. I think about this like 3 times a day on queens blvd.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah exactly i was on the manhattan side of the williamsburg bridge pedestrian entrance and people are just standing right at the edge of the road waiting for the light to change while cars are zooming so fast onto the bridge
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah that's easily one of the worst areas for deaths. total clusterfuck.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i saw a guy on a bike purposely cross two lanes of traffic to wait in the three foot wide only separated by trafic cones divider
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i always noticed this but being away from ny for a while now im like WTF
everytime i go out running im like omg so many cars coming for every direction wut do i do
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm all for being an asshole pedestrian grr new york right, but anything that requires believing that nyc drivers are always gonna see you and care is a belief that borders on religious
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I just pretend I'm robert duvall in apocalypse now
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I also keep my parents advice in mind which is "if they hit you they have to pay the hospital bills"
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
only if they stop afterwards
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
driving in NY = white-knuckle city. and wtf @ ppl who jaywalk w/strollers
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
sad thing is all the police dept has to do is actually just enforce the laws already on the books. city speed limit is 30 mph and they have to have a publicity campaign to try to guilt people into not speeding.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of speeding cop cars there was a spectacular crash outside my window a couple months ago. heard a siren blaring and then the sickening crunch of metal-on-metal. police cruiser slammed into a cab at intersection and got completely turned around. officers had to be pried from the totaled car, looked like the entire precinct was on my block. non-fatal, luckily.
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
they should build a device into nyc cars so that when they go above 30 mph they are automatically ejected from their cars and the cars maybe get teleported to the moon so they can't hurt anyone anymore
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
that is what I am going to campaign on as mayor of NYC
ime the nyc police to not enforce traffic laws unless they happen to be in some specifically set up trap or w/e, like one time i was driving down 2nd street talking on my cell phone not paying attention and took a right going south onto 1st ave which is the wrong way down a one way and almost crashed into a stopped at a red light cop car, i just turned around and the cop did nothing
btw i am fully aware this is unconscionable behavior and i apologize
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes I want to get a job as a nyc traffic cop and just pull people over every 5 seconds I would be so happy
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
they have quotas tho, whole thing's a farce
think about all the paperwork though *boom* just took you through the thought process of a nyc transit cop
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
(beats up protester)
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
traffic cop is the definition of thankless job. regular cops call em "meter maids"
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
just like the narcotics division under giuliani ;-)
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
The lowest quality cop I ever met was the one who drove me to my car at the lot where my car got towed to, that's where they put the worst cops
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
wish this had been posted with a coda of fuckin cops rather than an acknowledgement of guilt, fuckin cops
― ABSTRACT: is my heart. A stranger (schlump), Friday, 30 December 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
ps fuckin cops
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
ban cars
who wants a drink?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
me
on a plane iirc
― river wolf, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I am free tonite and tomorrow (/no life)
also psst mr dayo will be in town iirc but I dunno what his schedule is
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
i could be into tipping one or two back this evening
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
what Bklyn nabe are you staying in? I am undecided where I'm ringing in NYE... South Slope, Slope/Flatbush Ave, Wburg.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
^he asks rivwolf, but any other visitors can answer
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I honestly have no idea!
― river wolf, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
country mouse
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol u dont know where ur staying
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
dude doesnt have time for GoogleMaps during rock climbing
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Surprised he can get one hand free to type these posts tbh.
― OH GNUS (Pyth), Friday, 30 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
you could say that about most of ilx
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
tip yr waitresses everybody
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Boerum hill apparently
― river wolf, Friday, 30 December 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
okay are you and ice cr?m still up? morbs is gonna call me eventually. I dunno what the critical mass is.
― iatee, Friday, 30 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link